A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have pushed the limits of microscopy to capture sharper and deeper views of the brain. Traditional ...

Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in ...

Concussions are a common injury, responsible for as many as 3 million emergency room visits every year. Children playing ...

The next surprise was that human organoids just kept growing. Mouse organoids were done with making neurons within nine days.

Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique that uses RNA “barcodes” to map how neurons connect, capturing thousands ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

To gain better insight into what's happening in the brain, researchers examine the molecules produced by brain cells, ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

If you develop Alzheimer's disease, you not only lose your sense of time, but you also lose your sense of place. Could time and place be two sides of the same coin? About 55 million people globally ...